{"id":86517,"date":"2025-08-21T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86517\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:31:07","slug":"insider-gives-52-6-million-reason-for-knicks-to-avoid-lebron-james-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86517\/","title":{"rendered":"Insider gives $52.6 million reason for Knicks to avoid LeBron James trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Knicks have one of the top markets in the league, but they might not be the best fit for the league\u2019s biggest name.<\/p>\n

Over the past couple of years, the Knicks have made some blockbuster deals to put themselves in a position to contend in the East. With championship aspirations going into next season, the Knicks haven\u2019t made any big splashes after their Eastern Conference Finals run.<\/p>\n

While New York has made some solid free agent signings and hired a new head coach, it might be wise to simply run it back with the core it had last season. Although going after a player like LeBron James can be tempting, the Knicks would be wise to stay away from making such a move.<\/p>\n

New York shouldn\u2019t go after LeBron<\/p>\n

As recently noted by New York Daily News<\/a>\u2019 Kristian Winfield, the Knicks have a clear reason to stay away from James. Despite the star power that James would bring, the path to getting him to New York is a slippery slope.<\/p>\n

“LeBron isn\u2019t 53 years old \u2014 but he will make $52.6 million this season, his 23rd in the NBA,\u201d Winfield wrote. \u201cThat means the Knicks \u2014 already hovering just under the second tax apron \u2014 would need to match LeBron\u2019s salary in any trade. One clean solution: sending [Karl-Anthony] Towns to the Lakers. But news flash, Dallas: trading a 30-year-old star for a 40-year-old star is bad business.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s obvious that having James in New York would be an incredible sight and create some iconic images. However, the Knicks are in the business of basketball, and they need to do what\u2019s best for them on their journey to try and win an NBA title.<\/p>\n

Considering Towns is coming off one of the best years of his career, it would be unwise for New York to send him out. Add in Jalen Brunson\u2019s MVP-level play, and the Knicks already have enough star power without the King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks have one of the top markets in the league, but they might not be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-86517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}